Opening in April 2024, international trade boutique RB Legal harnesses the experience which founders and practice heads Laurent Ruessmann and Jochen Beck bring from previous firm Fieldfisher to provide clients with a skilled practice concerning anti-subsidy and anti-dumping cases. Together offering ‘long, deep experience and strong expertise in trade defence tools’, Ruessmann is an expert in trade defence and compliance matters, particularly in the mobility and materials segments, while Beck focuses his practice on EU and third-country trade defence instruments, as well as export control and sanctions compliance programmes.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘RB Legal is a professional team with different skill sets within the team which complement each other. On trade and customs law, it is one of the best teams in Brussels.'
‘Laurent Ruessmann is a lawyer with exceptional experience and intuition. He is communicative, extremely organised and ready to provide solutions tailored to the needs of his clients. Always on time with the out of the box solutions which make a difference in client's business.’
Key clients
- EBMA and members
- Glass Fibre Europe and members
Work highlights
- Assisted EU producers with the glass fibre value chain in several anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations, including anti-absorption, anti-circumvention, and interim review investigations, and represented the industries before the EU General Court and Court of Justice
- Advised EBMA and its members regarding EU trade defence and customs issues related to the AD and AS measures on imports of e-bikes and bicycles from China.